Tank-equipped vehicle



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Patented Mar. 15, 1927- entree stares ROBERT R. WEAVER, oFcIIIoAGo, ILLInoIs, AssIenon'ro GENERAL AMERICAN 'AN'I:

PATENT oFFicE.

CAR CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

TANK-EQUIIPED VEHICL Application filed August 20, 1926. Serial No. 130,455.

My invention relates to tank-equipped vehicles, such as tank cars and combined tender and tank cars; and especially to vehicles of the type in which the connections between the underframes and the tanks are remote from the longitudinal aXes of the tanks.

My primary object is to provide improve 7 ments in tank-equipped vehicles of the character stated to the end that the forces tcnding to distort thebottom plate portion of the tank will be resisted to the maximum degree, thetank will be stiffened in a direcview thereof. Figure 3 is .a plan View of one end of the underframe of the car. Figure 4: is a similar view of the other end of the underframe, these two views,gtaken together, showing the entire underframe.

V Figure 5 is a view in side elevation of the portion of the underframe shown in Fig, 8. Figure 6 is a SiIllllEII' View of the portion of the underframeshown in Fig-4:; and

Figure 7 an enlarged broken sectional view taken at the line 7 on Figs. 1 and3 and. viewed in the direction of the respective ably extend, as shown, from a point adjaarrows.

The structure shown comprises an under: frame represented generally at 10 which extends the full length of the vehicle, this frame being provided, adjacent its opposite ends, with body-bolster portions and intermediate these bolsters with cross-beam portions 12. The underframe 10 is mounted on wheeled trucks represented diagrammatically at 13, the underframe being supported at its body-bolsters 11 on the trucks 13 in accordance with common practice.

The tank portion of the car is represented at 14 and the coal-bunker thereof at 15, the tank being shown as extending at one end beneath the bunker and substantially the Figure 2 1s .a plan full length of the underframe. The com-l bmed tank and bunker structure is sup ported upon the underframe, to extend lengthwise thereof as shown, at concave seating surfaces provided on the upper surface oftheunderframe at intervalsalong the latter.

Extending along the tank at opposite sides thereof are members serving as reenforcementsfor the tank and for anchoring it in position on the underframe.

In the particular CODSlLILICtlOIl shown, wherein the body-bolsters 11 are provided with upwardly arched portions 16 at their outer ends, each member referred to, which preferably ex tends substantially the entire length of the tank, is provided in sections longitudinally aligned and spaced apart .at the arches 16,

the reenforcing and anchoring 'means at each side of the tank, in the particular construction shown, comprising three such sectrons represented at 18, 19 and 20.

The sections 18, 19 and 20 of.- the men forcing .and anchoring members referred to .are each preferably formed to provide a lower horizontally-disposed flange 21 at which these members are securedto the under-frame, as by riveting them thereto,

flange 22 connected with the flange '2l by av web section 23 and positioned toflatwise and an upwardly and out-wardly'extending engage the side of thetank to which it is connected, as by the rivets 24, the members referred to beingpreferablyformed'of two angle members 25 and 26 connectedtogether at opposed vertical flanges thereof, as" by rivetsv 27.

The sections 18 of thesemembers pr'efe'rcent one of the body-bolsters 16 to a point adjacent the other thereof, overlying the.

ends of these bolsters and theouter ends of It will be understood that especially in. the case of the utilization of the invention in a structure wherein the arches 16 are omitted, the reenforcmg and. anchoring members at the opposite sides of the tank may be continuous, If desired, instead of being provided in sections extending in series lengthwise of the tanln By constructing a vehicle-in accordance 'With my invention, the tank is stiffened in a direction lengthwise thereof and distortion of the bottom plate portion of the tank, under great-loads, and in the shiItingo-f the liquid in the tank, is prevented by reason of the fact that thet'orces to which such plate portion'is subjected are distributed along the articular construction embed in en- P Y o J ven'tion, :I do not wish to he understood intending tozlimit it =t-heret'o as the same may be variously modified and-altered Without departing ifrom the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as ne\v, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: Y r

[1. A tank equipped vehicle"comprising an undertrame, atank on said undertra-1ne,and a memherextending along-a side of the tank throughout the greater portion of the lee of the latter and located laterally remote from the central portion of the-under it'ra-m'e, and rigidly connected with both said tank and underaframe and serving to Teenforce the tank and anchor it to the underframe. l

'2. 'A tarileequipped vehicle comprising an underframe, a tank on'said un'derfraine, and

members extending along the "t-ail li' atits op-- posiite sides and throughout the greater p0r-' 'tion of the-length of the latter and located laterally remote from the central portion of,

the underframne, and rigidly connected both with :said tank and under'frame and serving to reenforc'e the tankand anchor it to the under-name; I I

r 3. A tank-equipped vehicle comprising an I underfraine' having cross-beam portions, a

tank on said underfra-me and a -ta-nk-reein it'orcing-aincl-anchoring member extending along a side of said tank and continuously from one cross-beam portion to another and to said cross-beam portionsf (:ollnQcted'With the side Wall of the tank and to said crossbeam portions;

4, A tank-equippedvehicle comprising an underframe having crossabeam' portions,v a tank on said underframe, tank reenforclngand-anchoring members-extending along the tank at opposite sides thereof, each of said members extending continuously from one cross-beam portion to anotherthereot and connected With the sidewall of the tank and 5. A tankequippedvehicle comprising an underframe having body-bolsters adjacent its ends, a tank on said undertra-me and a member extending along a side of the tank laterally remote from the centralportron of the underframe, and continuously from apoint adjacent-onset said body-bolsters to a point adjacent the other thereof and rigidly connected with both the side all of the tank and underframe. v

a 6. 'tankeq'uipped vehicle comprising "an underfralne having body-bolsters adjacent its 1 ends, a tank on said underfram'e, and members extending along the tank at opposite sides thereof laterally remote from the cen:

tral portion ofthe und'er'trame, each of said members extending continuously from a point adjacent one of said body-bolsters to a point adjacent the other thereofand rigidly connected with both "the side all of: the tank and underfra'me.

7. A tank-equipped vehiclecomprising an underframe having body-bolsters adjacent its opposite ends and cross-beam'portions intermediate said bolsters, a tank on said underzt'rame, and a member extending along v a side of the tank and continuously from a point adjacent one of said body-bolsters to i V a point adjacent the other thereof and connected With the side Wall oftheiita n'k and with said cross-beam portions.

'8. A tank-equipped vehicle'comprisingan underframe. having body bolsters adjacent its opposite ends and cross-beam portions in termediate said bolsters, a tank 011 92116. underframe, and members extend ng along thetankat opposite sides thereof, each of' said members extending continuously ii-0m a point adjacent one of said body-bolsters to a point adjacent the other thereof and connectedvvith the side wall of the tank'aod with said cross beam portions.

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